GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry. Building on the exceptional customer momentum of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, this launch continues our work to deliver transformative capabilities in Microsoft Foundry that produce less noise and are more capable at…

Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

By Dustin Ward

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, and adapting their approach as new information becomes available. This unique nature of…

Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

By Dustin Ward

Summary The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. Enterprise AI is moving into production, and our customers are becoming multi-model. Organizations will use frontier models where capability matters, and smaller, specialized, and open-weight…